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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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